It’s Great to Be Bloggin’ Again!
 The Blog froze up about August 28th. A lot of “Deprecated” messages appeared on the top of the page and I couldn’t figure out how to get them off. The entire site was frozen, and I couldn’t access any of the controls, post or edit comments. I appealed to many people for help, and many tried, thanks Adrian, Charles and Thad! Greg Ford, as usual, was the biggest help. He remembered that our web host is GoDaddy.com. The kind people at GoDaddy were able to talk me through the reset process for WordPress, on which this blog is written. Seems I have an old version (5 years old) of WordPress which wasn’t syncing up with newer Plugins and fonts. Now I’ve been updated to Vers. 2.1.3, and you will notice that the masthead and type font is just a little different. I only have two Plugins on the site, both of which are not activated. Whew! The things you have to know just to run a blog! Thanks again kind friends, for putting up with my extreme ignorance regarding the fine points of Plugins and Vers. 2.1.3!
 I’m not going to do the full quota of comics this time, I’ve been off the blog for so long that I’m going to sashay into it kinda gentle-like. Here’s Myrtle from 4-14 to 4-19-1947 by the great Dudley Fisher. My favorite from the week’s batch is the 4-16, which contains a special preview of “what a Dickens” Myrtle will be like when she’s 16! She has a figure, but even better is the stretched-out pose that Fisher uses to show her energetic attitude.
 I felt very unhappy that I couldn’t post the Sept. 1962 Yogi Bear Sunday pages due to the blog freeze. Here they are at last, in response to Yowp’s post of Sept. 2nd. They all seem to be by Harvey Eisenberg this time. The 9-30 strip is rather poignant, as President John F. Kennedy would be shot down Nov. 22, 1963, a little more than a year after this strip was published. Caroline Kennedy, who is the little girl in the last panel of the 9-30 Yogi page,  is still around, is a political presence, and a supporter and severe critic of President Obama. Please click the blogroll to the right of the page, to go to Yowp’s website and read his comments on these strips.
    I’ve missed, and haven’t missed writing this blog these past few weeks. It can be a time-consuming task to put this little squeak together. Some nice readers wrote to me and said they would miss this electronic rag if I quit doing it, so for them I’ll continue as long as the software lets me! I’ll try to get some more of my favorite (and yours) Felix, Krazy and L.A. Junior Times comics back here (where they belong) very soon. Computers can still be very formidable critters to deal with at times, especially when you can’t figure out what “Deprecated warnings” mean, let alone “Codex”. Good luck with your blogs, you content providers! See you soon.
Chris Sobieniak says:
Glad to have you back Mark!
Stephen says:
Welcome back!
Jack Mendelsohn says:
Hi, Mark — I’ve come across a number of Jacky’s Diary Sunday page “tear-sheets” (actual newspaper pages) that I can scan over to you, if you’re interested. My best — JACK
Joe C says:
I’d miss it too! Welcome back!
Chuck Akira Brubaker says:
Glad you’re back posting. I missed your posts, especially Myrtle.
charlie says:
great to have these back again–charlie
Mark says:
Hi Jack!
Thanks for writing to me at the blog. I still have a copy of the old King Features “Blue Book” with a nice “Jacky’s Diary” in it autographed by you! I would like scans of any “tear sheets” you would be so kind as to send to me. I like your website very much, I’ve visited several times. Great tales of your career in comics, animated cartoons and television. I have a copy of the Dell “Miss Peach” book you drew, I liked it the first time I saw it on the spinner rack in the Old Orchard Pharmacy in Webster Groves, Mo., where I went to grade school. I never bought the “Jacky’s Diary” one-shot, should have. I was reading your strip faithfully in the King Features “My Daily Ink” website, when it suddenly disappeared without much explanation. I assume you had a rights dispute with them?
I’m honored by your comment on my thawed-out blog, hope you will revisit it from time to time. By the way, your email: esob26@aol.com doesn’t work!
Chris, Stephen Joe, Charles and Charlie, glad you missed the Catblog and are still reading it!
Mark
Yours, Mark Kausler